“The Garden-Party” by Katherine Mansfield is a life-changing short story about a girl named Laura who awakens to the fact that she and her entire family have a totally different set of values. Her internal conflict is that she goes through many stages of denial and reasoning until she is finally forced to decide what is right. There are many factors, events, and complications that affect her final decision and some symbols that reveal her …showed first 75 words of 1169 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1169 total…was saying to excuse her of her mother’s values realizing how wrong they were. At that moment, Laura realized what she had been confused about over the course of the story. She finally accepted her own values and was determined not to be ashamed of them. In conclusion, one should never sway from something one believes in wanting someone to accept you. Never be ashamed of your values as Laura learned in this story.